Contemporary hard clinical outcomes are comparable after CABG and PCI for patients with isolated proximal LAD disease, according to a retrospective study published in the December 30, 2014, issue of ...

September 9, 2010 (Stockholm, Sweden) — Confirmation that thin-cap fibroatheromas (TCFAs) are focally distributed in the proximal left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery is good news, according ...

New 7-year data demonstrate similar long-term safety and effectiveness after PCI with sirolimus-eluting stents or minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass surgery in patients with isolated ...

Aug. 22, 2002 — Minimally invasive bypass surgery was better than stenting for a high-grade proximal left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery stenosis, according to the results of a randomized ...

A 34-year-old woman presented to the hospital after calling the emergency medical service (EMS) due to prolonged constrictive pain in her chest, which had come on suddenly at home. Records showed that ...

Background A 10-year-old boy presented with a history of severe angina on exertion. A two-dimensional echocardiogram showed mild asymmetric left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy localized to the ...

Note: ECG = electrocardiography, LAD = left anterior descending artery, STEMI = ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. These cases raise several questions: Are these true syndromes or simply ECG ...

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A 66-year-old woman presented with chest pain and chest distress for 1 year.She had hypertension and hyperlipipemia as her coronary risk factors.Her baseline ECG showed QS type on V1-V4 leads ...

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MDMedically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD A widowmaker heart attack is a type of heart failure in which the heart's biggest artery, the left anterior ...

A53-year-old male presented with chest pain at a pre-hospital care provider, and an ECG showed an anterior MI. The patient received 60-mg oral prasugrel (Effient, Eli Lilly/Daiichi Sankyo; Efient, ...